(Adnkronos) – The Iraqi government has set November 11 as the date for the next parliamentary elections, denying rumors of a possible postponement linked to a possible modification of the current electoral law. The announcement came with a brief statement on Facebook from the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani.
The government coalition, on the eve of the Council of Ministers that formalized the date, had reiterated “the need to hold the legislative elections on the scheduled date”, underlining that “no party has the right to delay the elections or cancel the times established for the electoral process”. According to the Iraqi news agency Ina, the coalition also asked the government to provide the High Electoral Commission, the body responsible for organizing and supervising the vote, with the necessary support to guarantee “the success of the electoral process and its integrity”.
In recent days, Iraqi media had reported that the Shiite National Movement, led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, was pushing for a postponement after also threatening to boycott the vote in protest against “corruption” in the country. In the last parliamentary elections held in Iraq in October 2021, the Sadrists, led by the influential Shiite cleric, were the main force, winning 73 of the 329 seats in Parliament, but they failed to form a government, unlike the pro-Iranian coalition called the Coordination Framework.
